Amazing Choc Facts

17,000 people in Belgium - that’s 1 in every 200 workers - are involved in the making, selling and promotion of chocolate.

One chocolate chip provides enough food energy for an adult to walk 150 feet. Therefore, it takes about 35 chocolate chips to walk a mile or 875,000 to get you around the world.

It takes the whole of one year’s crop from one tree to make half a kilo of cocoa.

USA army rations include 3 x 40g chocolate bars.

Terrys of York will produce more than 350 million segments of chocolate orange a year.

66,000 Crème Eggs are made every hour.

During the Aztec reign, a slave could be bought for 100 cocoa beans.

1 in 7 15-24 year-olds claim life without chocolate is not worth living.

Joseph Fry of Bristol, England, made the first eating chocolate in 1848.

28,000 Terrys Chocolate Oranges are made from 5 tonnes of chocolate.

The biggest chocolate sculpture ever made was a 4,484 lb, 10 foot high Easter egg, constructed in Melbourne, Australia.

Chocolate in a blue wrapper won’t sell in Shanghai or Hong Kong, because the Chinese associate blue with death.

The world’s largest box of chocolates weighed in at 2,002 lbs. It was made in Chicago, USA, and contained Frango mints.

Africa now produces over 66% of the world’s supply of chocolate.

The first cacao trees were found growing in the Amazon river basin and the foothills of the Venezuelan and Colombian Andes.

In 1991, a model ship was made out of chocolate in Barcelona, Spain. It measured 42.5 feet x 28 feet x 8 feet.

Every year on February 14th, Japanese girls give chocolate hearts to their loved ones. The gesture is copied by the men one month later on “Howaito” white day.

In Holland, the feast of St. Nicholas or Santa Claus is celebrated on December 6th. The children put their clogs outside at night so Santa can fill them up with chocolate money.

The largest chocolate ever made was a chocolate marzipan. It was made in the Netherlands over a 3-day period and weighed 4,078 lbs!